Cutting book covers for animation frames 1:

I made photocopies of my book covers and measured and cut the book covers to each size they would need to be for a new frame. These frames are for the paper going into the typewriter, which needed separate sections of the book cover cutting so the animation would run smoothly overall. 
I will do this for each book cover I intend to use for my animation. 

Testing book covers on typewriter:

I was testing my book covers on the typewriter animation and I noticed that the covers would overlap on top of the typewriter itself, so I traced the bottom part of the typewriter so I could overlay it on top of the book cover. I also enjoy the small shadow effect the addition created, so I will be using it for my final animation. 

Coloured Book Covers

These are the coloured versions of my book covers ready to animate.

Individuals of my book covers:

Typewriter Animation: Book covers

These are the books I chose from the Agatha Christie Poirot series; as 

I thought the titles would be the best to illustrate for my animation.

Book titles include: 

'Cards on the Table'

'Poirot Investigates'

'The Big 4'

'Black Coffee'

'The ABC Murders'

Inking Typewriter 2

After using ink to fill in the parts on the typewriter that I wanted to be solid black, I needed to ink over the pencil lines that outline the whole typewriter. I started out with using a 0.4mm fine liner, but the lines looked much too thin and I wanted a bolder finish.









To resolve this I used a thicker 0.6mm fine liner, which gave a much more defined and solid look to the typewriter, giving it a heaviness that I found fit very well with the look I wanted.

Inking Typewriter 1

This is one of the first frames for my typewriter animation. I was originally going to use pencil to shade in the typewriter as is shown to the left, although I didn't find this very successful as the result came out scratchy and uneven looking, which did give the typewriter a rustic feel, but it was not the result I had hoped for, I wanted a darker shade for the typewriter itself with clean lines. 

To have a cleaner and much sharper look to the typewriter I decided to use ink. I outlined the areas that I previously shaded in pencil then filled it in with black ink to give a more defined look.